/*
 * Copyright 2009 Aleksandar Seovic
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.seovic.io;


import java.io.Writer;
import java.io.IOException;


/**
 * A factory interface for Writer objects.
 * <p/>
 * Unlike writers themselves, WriterFactory implementations should be
 * serializable, so they can be passed from one process to another. This
 * allows them to be used within classes that could be executed either locally
 * or remotely, such as batch jobs, for example.
 * 
 * @author Aleksandar Seovic  2009.11.06
 */
public interface WriterFactory
    {
    /**
     * Create Writer instance.
     *
     * @return writer instance
     *
     * @throws IOException  if an error occurs while creating a writer
     */
    public Writer createWriter()
            throws IOException;
    }
